God’s Word Translation
Exodus 23:26
26No woman in your land will miscarry or be unable to have children. I will let you live a normal life span.
Exodus 23:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- New International Version (NIV)and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
- English Standard Version (ESV)None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- New King James Version (NKJV)No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Context of Exodus 23:26
24Never worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. Instead, you must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones. 25You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your food and water. I will take away all sickness from among you. No woman in your land will miscarry or be unable to have children. I will let you live a normal life span. 27“I will send my terror ahead of you and throw any nation you meet into a panic. I will make all your enemies flee from you. 28I will spread panic ahead of you to force the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites out of your way.
Read all of Exodus 23Exodus 23:26 word by word
לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֛ה מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה וַעֲקָרָ֖ה בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר יָמֶ֖יךָ אֲמַלֵּֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 23:26
- Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed more than any other people. Your men and women will be able to have children, and your animals will be able to have offspring.
- Deuteronomy 28:4You will be blessed. You will have children. Your land will have crops. Your animals will have offspring. Your cattle will have calves, and your flocks will have lambs and kids.
- Job 21:10Their bulls are fertile when they breed. Their cows give birth to calves and never miscarry.
- Psalms 107:38He blesses them, and their numbers multiply, and he does not allow a shortage of cattle.
- Psalms 144:13May our barns be filled with all kinds of crops. May our sheep give birth to thousands of lambs, tens of thousands in our fields.
- Malachi 3:10“Bring one-tenth of your income into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I won’t open the windows of heaven for you and flood you with blessings.
- Genesis 25:8Then he took his last breath, and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.
- Genesis 35:29when he took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death at a very old age. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- 1 Chronicles 23:1When David had grown old and had lived out his years, he made his son Solomon king of Israel.
- Job 5:26“You will come to your grave at a ripe old age like a stack of hay in the right season.
- Job 42:17Then at a very old age, Job died.
- Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will throw ⌞wicked people⌟ into the deepest pit. Bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I will trust you.
- Psalms 90:10Each of us lives for 70 years— or even 80 if we are in good health. But the best of them ⌞bring⌟ trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.
- Isaiah 65:20There will no longer be an infant who lives for only a few days or an old man who doesn’t live a long life. Whoever lives to be a hundred years old will be thought of as young. Whoever dies before he is a hundred years old will be cursed as a sinner.
Commentaries on Exodus 23:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren - Hence there must be a very great increase both of men and cattle. The number of thy days I will fulfill - Ye shall all live to a good old age, and none die before his time. This is the blessing of the righteous, for wicked men live not out half their days; Psalm 55:23.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-33Verses 20-33 It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise, Behold, I send an angel before thee, mine angel. The precept joined with this promise is, that they be obedient to this angel whom God would send before them. Christ is the Angel of Jehovah; this is plainly taught by St. Paul, 1Co 10:9. They should have a comfortable settlement in the land of Canaan. How reasonable are the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26Pagan rites were carried out in an attempt to manipulate the forces of fertility and reproduction. God promised to give these gifts freely if the people would faithfully carry out the terms of their covenant with him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-331. put not thine hand--join not hands.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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